Hoping MS makes a bid and buys GED. Wish I could start a petition among remaining employees, along with a nice letter to MS on behalf of us, outlining our knowledge and enthusiasm of all things iOT and why it would be good for them to buy us.
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MS or TCS or Amazon ? Who is going to buy GE Digital Hubs ?
Microsoft will not be the savior.
https://c3iot.com/c3-iot-microsoft-strategic-partnership/
https://www.smartindustry.com/industrynews/2018/ptc-partners-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-digital-transformations-in-iot/
Its a strange rumor. Based on the unlikely theory that Microsoft is both stupid enough to buy it yet brilliant enough to fix it.
@SjjYFwO-7nfc - What makes you so sure??? Do you have a bug in Flannery’s or Ruh’s Office?
Large Companies restructure all the time. It’s like a pendulum that keeps swinging from one end to another. Look at GE’s own example. GE Energy was split into Power, O&G and Energy Connections followed by addition of Renewables after Alstom. EC and Power are already back together and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Renewables merged back once they reduce the coal and steam footprint!
In GED itself, we have had Digital 2.0 and now reversal of Digital 2.0 (of course, this has more to do with the incompetence of Ruh and Kate Johnson than anything else)
But on a side note - what an irony it will be for MS to acquire GED. Kate and her cronies (Aaron Darcy to name one) and their sorry asses will be back to destroy whatever commercial strategy there is left!
MS just announced a huge reorg, no doubt in preparation for swallowing GED!
When is the announcement coming
Folks look for a JV announcement with MS. Maybe won't save us but will bring some sanity to both enterprise IT and commercial space. This actually may save us. Its the first breath of positive news I have heard in a while here.
@SjjYFwO-2tyw is either Darren or one of his shills posting to score some brownie points with their boss
@SjjYFwO-2lwb . You are clearly in the minority! If you're so convinced there's progress after all these lay offs, please describe their vision. Let us know what their strategic direction is. It changes more than the wind so I'm betting you can't.
Sales was let go last round.
PM and UX let go this round.
Partners won't represent because there is no value or strategy around their compensation.
Would love to hear your take.
Only SEB+ think GED is turning the corner and they are lying to themselves and Flannery. How out of touch.
This is hilarious @SjjYFwO-2tyw. You say it’s cutting corners!!!! Come’on man ... This is plain politics to keep their job alive. This is not playing for the company but just playing for yourself. The executives here don’t even know what a layer down them is working on. There are some really bad performances (lot of folks call them out in private) both from attitude,and expertise standpoint who are still surviving on complete BS. Few examples - the really sh--ty product managers, guys hired from the fruit company in Engineering team, folks in CI/CD. They have just messed up the whole system and still in GE. This is not cutting corners, this is ignoring the evident. Eddie needs to look into it if he wants to succeed.
Money laundering doesn't make good software
@SjjYFwO-2tyw - Seriously?? Turning a corner??
How do you explain better when in every round, performance/skills aren’t the criteria for who is impacted and who remains (and this isn’t me saying it, but the official message from the so-called leadership)??
If you truly want to fix things, then you would try and keep the right talent. Without the right talent and guidance in key areas, you simply make very expensive mistakes like GED has made over the past 5 years.
Talent for Commercial and Product Strategy, Deep technical talent for Analytics and Engineering among others. Yes, we should’ve never led with Platform but done with Apps. We should clean house off executives and people who continue to believe leading with Platform and Technology is the right way - but that’s not the only thing that has happened.
How do you justify keeping positions in San Ramon, while letting go of talent elsewhere (and it’s not remote people, but key folks who are in GED hubs) under the banner of cost cutting? That’s not called turning the corner but playing political games of favoritism.
You hire a Sr Executive for Product Management under the garb of talent when that person has never built or commercialized an enterprise product in their life and who keeps claiming openly that he’s still learning. You don’t hire a Sr Executive to just learn (even though everyone should constantly learn) but to bring something to the table. Not only that he was hired because of his connections to Eddie, but hired without any interview process (save the obligatory HR “interview”)
No, I am not one of those people impacted - but I do know of key talent that was impacted. Why would I be motivated to keep coming back to work and go above and beyond when this is how people are treated?? If those so-called leaders keep believing that they are turning the ship around, then either they are completely clueless or plain lying or both.
What is wrong with you guys? I feel GED is turning the corner for the better. If you asked me 6 months ago I had a different option. Of you want to just trash talk the company leave!!! If you truly want to make a difference look at your self or team and make it better! This trash talking does nothing.
Maybe if the stock drops below $5 per share. GED can't offer anything that isn't being done more efficiently by someone else, so why should MS waste their money on a company that not only champions failure, but produces it in epic proportions?
Fresh news...Gytis and Kevin Collins both gone. So Predix will just remain that - brand name (and a damaged one at that). The Meridium-ization of GE Digital is complete.
Just one more move left - Amos to replace bozo Bill
they tried that last year and failed. No buyers of GE Digital because there is no product and majority of employees are B or C team talent.
@SjjYFwO-hiq There is nothing cutting-edge (or even close to cutting-edge) that is being developed there. You may have (and you should, if not) read in the news recently, how bad siri was when it came to Apple and how badly it was run. The trend continues. There is nothing there that other cloud providers already have. Both AWS/Azure have tools and services that negates the need for Predix/PCE. GE Business units can deploy their IIoT apps that their customers want directly on AWS/Azure (and save tons of money on long term contracts with AWS/Azure). This entire team is redundant.
@hiq - Seriously??? Darren Haas’ team? The team that can’t fix and build a performant and scalable Time Series service & store?? That is the most fundamental data for IoT and IIoT applications.
Again, there maybe some good talent but let’s not exaggerate by saying tons of good talent. Darren himself may have good talent for building Siri like engines. Doesn’t make him the right person for GED’s needs and problems
@tad - agree 1000%
wow !!! GED exployees expect MS to buy GED. ha ha ha . joke of the year.
The best thing GED and predix has going was access to internal GE vertical sales. Tech wise it’s nothing special - sure there are some protocols that Microsoft isn’t an expert in but that’s easily acquired or partnered to solve like PTC acquired kepware. Hard to see any case for MS to buy GED besides for the news/splash it would generate
It is easy to downplay the tech when you are close to it, but GED has a lot of valuable software and industrial know-how that would be extremely valuable to Microsoft or Amazon. (And no, not all the good people have left - Darren Haas’ team has tons of good folks still.)
Time to brush up the resumé and LInkedIn. Both previous posts are correct. Anyone who holds out hope for MS to ride in save the day is naïve. So much, squandered...
What exactly would be the reason for MS to buy GED? Save for some of the technology in acquisitions made by GE (not the ones in the past 1-2 years), there is nothing for MS. Neither product, nor technology nor know-how (since most great talent has already left or been laid off or will leave soon once whatever meager bonuses are paid).
This will be a totally worthless piece of s**t - a case study for business schools on how to waste a good vision and billions of dollars!
Probably is not going to happen ever because Microsoft is smarter than that except in the edge scenario they could buy GED for pennies on the dollar. Maybe just go to work for Microsoft or Amazon IoT team and get the same personal result and probably better stock. Good luck friend.